| STRAWBERRY PIE
1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons cornstarch

Pinch of salt 1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon butter 14 cup mashed berries
4 cup water pink coloring

Method—Mix sugar, cornstarch and salt. Mash berries, fill cup
with water, cook all till clear, add butter, cool and pour into
baked shell. Fill with whole berries, top with whipped cream.

—Mrs. H. Taylor.

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CAKES
. A Picnic is a festive spot,
When— oh, the bitter spite of it
We take the best cake of the lot,
And never get a bite of it.

FRUIT CAKE
cup white sugar,
cup butter, or 1-3 butter and the rest lard,
eggs beaten,
cup buttermilk and 1 teaspoon baking soda,
cup molasses, or 14 cup molasses and rest corn syrup
teaspoon each of cloves, cinnamon, and 14 teaspoon of nutmeg
and allspice.
14 teaspoon salt
1 cup seedless raisins, added with flour
Flour to make a medium cake batten
Cream butter and sugar, adding well beaten eggs, beat again.
‘Add buttermilk, dissolving the baking soda, then add molasses,
spices, salt, and flour.
To this recipe may be added 14 cup mixed candied peel, 1 cup
blanched almonds, 1 cup currants, |
No icing is required, but a plain one made with confectionery
sugar with either almond, or lemond flavoring, is suitable.
—Mrs, O. Westlind.

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DEVILS FOOD
1 cup egg yolks left from making Angel Food)

1 cup sour cream 1 cup sugar
14 cup cocoa 1 teaspoon soda
114 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon. vanilla
Wihip cream and add to eyg yolks beaten until lemon colored,
then add sugar, then cocoa, flour and vanilla. Bake in a moderate

oven.
ns . —Mrs. W. H. VanWyck.

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